Ambient wildlife tag should only be used according to its description:
When there are animals that are not important to the overall scene, e.g. birds flying in the distance
Use this tag when the removal of background animals won’t change much in the entire picture.
Think of it as “incidental animal”. If the animal is at least somewhat important because the main character is interacting with it in some way then it should not be tagged as
ambient wildlife and also it should not be
solo but
solo focus instead then. If the animal is not important then it should be
ambient wildlife and just
solo.
I would say:
NOT ambient wildlife
IT IS ambient wildlife
Edge case where it depends whether main character is pointing at the butterfly (then it would not be
ambient wildlife) or it is there just to fill the blank space (then it would be
ambient wildlife):
As for when to tag species:
If we had tags like “ambient bird”, “ambient butterfly” etc. then I think species should never be tagged for ambient wildlife. But Fleetfoot wrote on Discord that she doesn’t want it like that.
In that case I would say it depends. For species that is more often depicted in furry art as the main subject like “bird” species should not be tagged, but for species that is more often depicted in furry art as ambient wildlife like “butterfly” it might still get tagged as it would not interfere with search results.
The goal should be so that if somebody searches for “solo, bird” they should not get a picture like that in their results:
And you can’t just use “solo, bird, -ambient wildlife” because what if the character that is the main focus is also a bird? This is why having tags like “ambient bird” would be usefull.
